“So, you play club soccer?” a raspy male voice from behind me croaked. I was afraid to turn around because in my mind there would be a peculiar stalker who had spent the last couple years of his life gathering detailed information of my personal life. I cautiously swiveled my head around. “Yeah, I do...how did you... how did…” He cut me off. “Strikers FC…” I nodded my head even though he had not answered anything and had made my stalker suspicion even worse. He picked up on my bluff
500 years old. b) Erika and Helmut Simon first discovered Otzi. c) Otzi probably brought species of grass that do not grow at that altitude. d) Walter Kutschera works with the Vienna Environmental Research Accelerator. e) Willard Libby assumed that C-14 content in the atmosphere was constant over time. f) Rainer Henn flew the iceman to his institute by helicopter. g) Konrad Spindler was the first person to estimate the iceman’s age to be about 4000 years. 2. The Similaun Mountain Peak’s height, in
the same number of protons and neutrons, (Rink, n.d). One isotope will always be abundant for each element, for example, carbon’s prevailing isotope is carbon 12, however there are different ones that are less plentiful, such as carbon 13 and carbon 14, (Roberts, 1998, p. 11-16). Each decay event will emit one daughter isotope at a fixed rate. Although it will not be a straight line, the decay will occur quickly at first then it gradually slows over time. Since decay is measurable due to fixed rate
after 5,700 years this activity will have decreased to 7.8 disintigratuions per minuate per gram of carbon in the body.’(Comas 457) This means that the ratio of C14 to C12 left in the fossil when it is found can give a date in years. Carbon-14 dating has a half-life of 5,700 years, with the lower limit of 1,000 years. The upper limit used to be about 30,000 years because after that the ratio was too small to analis. Recently reaserch by Haring and deVires has let scientist put the
living, and previously living materials is carbon dating. Carbon-14 dating has enlightened archaeologists to a technique that dates materials that are thousands of years old. With this relatively new dating method, archaeologists have been able to date certain artifacts more accurately than ever before. To understand the important impacts this method has had on archaeology, it is essential to understand what Carbon-14 is, how Carbon-14 dating works, how it is calibrated, and how it is measured. The
In 1912 a man named Charles Dawson had claimed to discover skulls in the Piltdown quarry in Sussex, England. The remains, named the Piltdown man, were claimed to have been the “missing link.” He looked to be both human and ape, with the brow of Homo sapiens and a primitive jaw. As time went on and new remains were discovered, Piltdown man did not fit into the human family tree. In 1953, Piltdown man was finally proved to be a fake. Piltdown man had the skull from a medieval human, an Orangutan jaw
The characteristics of a group are determined by its elements. The mob that stormed the Bastille on July 14th, 1789 was a group of citizens that were fierce, enraged, and blood-thirsty. To the people of Paris, the Bastille was a symbol of brutality and totalitarian power. It was hated because of the many stories that had emerged from its walls of horrible torture and brutality. To the people of Paris who stormed the Bastille, the prison which was the symbol of the absolute monarchy which France had
Apollo 13 Apollo 13 launched on April 11, 1970 from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The crewmembers aboard the ship were James A. Lovell Jr., John L. Swigert Jr., and Fred W. Haise, Jr. Before the launch, there had been a few problems. Thomas K. Mattingly was supposed to fly on the Apollo 13 but he was exposed to the measles. He didn’t have the antibodies to fight the disease, causing him to not be able to go into space. Swigert took his place. Right before the launch, one of the technicians
“Willard Libby (a scientist who won the Nobel Prize inn Chemistry) developed radiocarbon dating as a method to measure radioactivity. Carbon-14 is a weakly radioactive isotope of Carbon; also known as radio carbon. Radiocarbon dating cannot be applied to metals, only to organic and selected inorganic materials. The three principal radiocarbon dating methods are: (1) gas proportional counting, (2) liquid scintillation counting and (3) accelerator mass spectrometry.” (Beta Analytic). Radiocarbon dating
F-14 TOMCAT Wing span: 64 feet unswept; 38 feet swept Length: 62 feet 7 inches Height: 16 feet Weight: Empty: 40,104 pounds Maximum take-off: 74,348 pounds Speed: Maximum: 1,544 mph Cruise: 576 mph Ceiling: More than 56,000 feet Power plant: Two Pratt and Whitney TF-30-P412A turbofan engines with afterburners; F-14B and F-14D: F-110-GE-400 augmented turbofan engines with afterburner Crew: two Contractor: Grumman Aerospace F-14 Tomcat, sleek, powerful, deadly, and the real star of
Restaurant Scene in Top Girls The restaurant scene in Top Girls (TG) revolves around Marlene celebrating her promotion at work, it is purely female gendered, having no male actors present throughout the whole play. The significance of the five guests she has chosen to celebrate with promotes the hard work and sacrifices she has made in order to get where she is. This scene uses women of the past, to highlight struggles of women through the ages, encompassing the theme of women’s experiences
company but its primary function is the manufacturing of automobiles and light trucks (SIC 3711). The General Motors stock is listed on the New York Stock Exchange and has approximately 1,426,592,046 outstanding shares on the marketplace, as of 10/14/2001. It is headquartered in Detroit Michigan with offices around the world. General Motors has many other operations besides automobile manufacturing including: General Motors Acceptance Corporation Financial Services, Hughes Electronics Corporation
largest minority group, and the youngest, and the most underrepresented in companies' top management. Since 1990 the Hispanic population has grown from 22.4 million to nearly 42.6 million. By 2050 they'll account for one out of four U.S. citizens. But of the 10,417 board seats in Fortune 1,000 companies, they hold only 191, and occupy just a scant 1.1% of the executive offices in those companies. Of the top 1,000 corporations, 913 have no Latino officers, and 35 entire industries, like insurance
economy and people are not afraid to “splurge” a bit on external enjoyment. There has been a recent surge in activity sports as the X Games just took place and were aired in 48 states. Skateboarding, extreme roller blading, and skydiving are among the top of the list. 3) How will the previous affect your marketing or promotional plans? We are privately funded, so the strength in the economy will help us with sales. Therefore, we will be using promotions and advertising to pull in good repeat customers
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communication and perception when pursuing a goal. Implement Information An organization that can make decisions faster, and change direction at the “drop of a hat”, is more versatile and will most likely survive longer. “Old time” decisions that were made by top management or a board of directors, could take a while to trickle down the ranks and actually be implemented in the process. Teams that are given the authority to make quick decisions can get things done faster, and are more responsive to the customer
Further, ZZ Top has appropriated the musical style of what Cook referred to as, “Black Americans in the deep South.” In addition, the ZZ Top video is recognizably ignorant of any appreciative contribution of the blues culture that is their music. It is almost as if they are deriding the origin of the blues. Therefore, ZZ Top’s
Shirley Temple Black was easily the most popular and famous child star of all time. She got her start in the movies at the age of three and soon progressed to super stardom. Shirley could do it all: act, sing and dance and all at the age of five! Fans loved her as she was bright, bouncy and cheerful in her films and they ultimately bought millions of dollars worth of products that had her likeness on them. Dolls, phonograph records, mugs, hats, dresses, whatever it was, if it had her picture on there
to create strategic change as necessary… managing through others, managing an entire enterprise rather that a functional subunit”. 2. Critical Analysis -------------------- Strategic management can be described as a process undertaken by top-level management. Thomson el all (2002, pp. 3-15)) elaborate that strategic management is process about defining the purpose of existent of an organization, formulating a long term strategy to fit the organization’s external and internal situation
organizational design choices and the design of IT infrastructure. The alignment is said to be the most common and widely understood perspective, as it corresponds to the classic, hierarchical view of strategic management. Driver: Business Strategy Role of Top Management: Strategy Formulator Role of IT Management: Strategy Implementer Performance Criteria: Cost/Service Center 2. Technology transformation This alignment involves the assessment of implementing the chosen business strategy through appropriate